The following Maine Learning Results Standards and Performance Indicators are assessed during this project.

English Language Arts
A5: Understand stories and expository texts from the perspective of the social and cultural context in which they were created.

B3: Identify the main and subordinate characters in literary works.

B11: Read literature and view films which illustrate distinct cultures in various types of works and formulate and defend opinions gathered from the experience.

F1:
1. Edit written work for standard English spelling and usage, evidenced by pieces that show and contain:
* no significant errors in the use of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.
* few significant errors in the use of adjective forms (e.g., comparative, superlative), adverbial forms, prepositions, and prepositional phrases.
* attention to the proper use of conjunctions.
* no significant errors in the spelling of common, frequently used words, and attention to the correct spelling of commonly misspelled words and less common words.
* no significant errors in the common conventions of capitalization (e.g., proper nouns, names, titles) and attention to the less common capitalization conventions (e.g., capitalizing the names of nationalities).
* no significant errors in the use of ending punctuation marks, few significant errors in the common uses of commas, and attention to the proper use of the colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash, apostrophe, and quotation marks.
* attention to the correct use of commonly confused terms (e.g., affect and effect).
* attention to the proper use of italics, marginal notes, and footnotes.

Career Prep

A2: Use teamwork strategies and apply communication and negotiation skills to decision making.

Visual and Performing Arts

C6: Critique their own work and the work of others based upon an aesthetic criterion.